I heard the word many times before in my life, but this time my dad said it to me as me as something I lack. "Son, you aint got no courage? Did I raise you like that?" At that moment, as I heard those words I wiped the tears from my face, turned my back from my parents, handed my boarding pass to the strange lady dressed in blue walked into a towering white and …
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…rise above the boundaries of race, sex other simple differences, to rise above the normal and stand up for a belief, a person, a law, a country anything worth anything takes courage to achieve it. Selfless acts that a fireman does take courage because he or she thinks about saving people before he or she thinks about saving his or herself. Courage is simply not overcoming one's fears, but overcoming these fears for a cause.